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In the Judge Dredd comics "futsies" are sufferers of future shock, a condition where sufferers are unable to cope with the excesses of living in megacities and go on killing sprees.
Futsies - sufferers of "Future Shock" syndrom, unable to stand the pace of Tenty-Second Century living, they crack and go on murderous rampages." (Source: Weston & Parkhouse, 2021:5)
The term is a clear satire of the concept of future shock coined by Alvin Toffler in the 1970s (Toffler, 1984):
It is the thesis of this book that there are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb, and that by endlessly accelerating change without first determining these limits, we may submit masses of men to demands they simply cannot tolerate. We run the high risk of throwing them into that peculiar state that I have called future shock.
We may define future shock as the distress, both physical and psychological, that arises from an overload of the human organism's physical adaptive systems and its decision-making processes. Put more simply, future shock is the human response to overstimulation. (Toffler, 1984:164)
The first futsie case was Michael Kerrigan, who was driven mad by seeing a las-knife in 2089 (Ewing et al., 2008: 35).
Novelty plus stress equals footsie (Source: Ewing et al., 2008: 37)
Ewing, A., Jackademus, & De Ville, E. (2008). Tales from the Black Museum: Build a Better Mousetrap. Judge Dredd Megazin, 275, 35–43.
Toffler, A. (1984). Future Shock. Bantam Books.
Weston, C., & Parkhouse, A. (2021). Adios, Rowdy Yates. 2000AD, Prog 2234, 3–8.